Ministry urges private schools and kindergartens to excel and promote national identity
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education urged private schools and kindergartens to succeed, stressing that it will continue to concentrate on promoting national identity, Islamic values, and the Arabic language in these schools during the new academic year 2022/2023. The ministry was represented by the Private Education Affairs Sector.
On the occasion of the beginning of the new school year, Assistant Undersecretary for Private Education Affairs Omar Abdulaziz Al-Naama expressed his satisfaction with the positive atmosphere in the first week of study, which began in some private schools and kindergartens on the sixteenth of this month while others start tomorrow, Sunday. He also praised the role of parents and their keenness on their children’s commitment, praising the high attendance rate of students.
At the beginning of the new academic year, which he called exceptional because it coincides with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, which will be hosted by Qatar at the end of this year, he also congratulated the students and all academic and administrative bodies in private schools and kindergartens. He emphasized the role that private schools and kindergartens played in the tournament, which will draw the attention of the entire world to Qatar.
Al-Naama stated that the Private Education Affairs Sector will continue to put a priority on fostering national identity, Islamic values, and the Arabic language in private schools. She also noted that the operational plan for the year 2022–2023 has a project called “My Values Shape My Identity” that is based on fostering students’ understanding of how their values shape their identities.
In order to maintain the identity of the Qatari community in private schools and kindergartens, achieve maintaining Qatari values and heritage, support practices, initiatives, and activities that, in turn, work to consolidate positive action, and build a cohesive role model community aware of national and community responsibility, the plan also calls for cooperation with private school principals in order to activate and ensure the ethical charter.